Historical and genomic data reveal the influencing factors on global transmission velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic

Xu, Lei; Christian Stige, Leif; Leirs, Herwig; Neerinckx, Simon; L. Gage, Kenneth; Yang, Ruifu; Liu, Qiyong; Bramanti, Barbara; R. Dean, Katharine; Tang, Hui; Sun, Zhe; Chr. Stenseth, Nils; Zhang, Zhibin

doi:10.1073/pnas.1901366116

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Historical and genomic data reveal the influencing factors on global transmission velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • May 28, 2019

Authors:

Lei Xu

Leif Christian Stige

Herwig Leirs

Abstract

Quantitative knowledge about which natural and anthropogenic factors influence the global spread of plague remains sparse. We estimated the worldwide spreading velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic, using more than 200 years of extensive human plague case records and genomic data, and analyze...

Subject

Plague (disease)

Pandemic

Yersinia pestis

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